The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered unusual ice in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and detected traces of exploded stars near the black hole at the center of our galaxy.
NASA's Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes have captured images of the Cat's Head Nebula, a star-forming region that resembles a ghostly cat with a glowing eye.
Researchers at Heriot-Watt University have developed a small glass chip that links telescopes together, allowing them to function as a single instrument with unprecedented resolution.
A new study from Cambridge researchers challenges the long-held theory that comets delivered prebiotic molecules to early Earth, finding such delivery would be rare at best.
Astronomers have discovered a gas trail pointing to jets from a binary star system that emits unusually strong gamma rays, providing evidence for the source of the high-energy emissions.
Astronomers have detected helium in the atmosphere of exoplanet LHS 1140b, a discovery that has significant implications for understanding this potentially habitable world.
The Webb telescope has imaged an ultra-rare ring galaxy just 2 billion years after the Big Bang and found rapid growth in dual active galactic nuclei during a gas-rich merger.
New analysis of cosmic microwave background radiation provides evidence of gas flowing through galaxy clusters, offering fresh insights into large-scale cosmic structures.
A wave of 3D mapping efforts is challenging decades-old assumptions about the interstellar medium as a static backdrop, revealing it is more dynamic than previously thought.
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, renowned for discovering pulsars, has been recognized by University College Dublin with the prestigious Ulysses Medal.
Astronomers have discovered that the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is surrounded by a previously undetected metal-rich cloud.
A nearby star system just 16 light-years from Earth may be hiding planets in habitable zones, according to new research findings.